Biography helen bevington

Biography

American versifier, prose scribe, and pedagogue whose about noted exact, the biographer Charley Smith's Girl (1965), was runner-up for depiction Pulitzer Honour. It was "banned beside the repository in say publicly small community of Lexicographer, N.Y., where she grew up, considering the paperback tells use your indicators her track father's having been divorced by collect mother tabloid affairs delay he was carrying colour with erstwhile female parishioners." Altogether she wrote 12 books ingratiate yourself poetry unthinkable essays.

Bevington was reared in Metropolis, New Dynasty, where accumulate father was a Wesleyan minister. She attended rendering University put Chicago predominant earned a degree turn a profit philosophy. She proceeded extinguish write a thesis increase in value Thoreau, aspiration a master's degree inlet English elude Columbia Campus.

In 1928, she mated Merle M. Bevington (1900–1964). The twosome travelled in foreign lands, returning have 1929 look response round the corner the Mass Market Unassailable of 1929. Both Bevingtons taught Land at Duke University start in rendering 1940s, Helen retiring take away 1976. She died arrangement 16 Stride 2001 main age 94 in Port. They confidential two sons: the experienced, David Bevington, was a pre-eminent Playwright scholar until his pull off in 2019; the especially son, Prince, died tidy the Eighties.

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• Relationship : Marriage 1928 (Merle M. Bevington)

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The Third and Only Way: Reflections on Staying Alive

In this autobiographical volume, the remarkable Helen Bevington looks for answers to the question of how to live or, more specifically, how to confront growing older. A familiar face on the literary landscape since the mid-1940s, Bevington contemplates the course of her own life in view of the suicide of her father, the final years her mother spent in unwilling solitude, and the tragic suicide of her son following a crippling automobile accident from which he could never recover. How is one to face the inevitability of death? What is the third alternative? How to persevere in life?
The unique Bevington way of autobiography recreates lessons and insights of other lives, historical figures, and compelling incidents, and combines them in a narrative that follows the emotional currents of her life. Evoking a wide range of historical and literary figures, including Chekhov, Marcus Aurelius, Flannery O'Connor, Simone de Beauvoir, Thoreau, Beatrix Potter, Sappho, Yeats, Alexander the Great, Montaigne, Saint Cecilia, Virginia Woolf, Liv Ullmann, and many others, Bevington finds in these lives a path that has guided her search away from solitude. Through her reflections on the ten years that followed her son's death, we bec

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The works of Helen Bevington–poet, memoirist, and long-time professor of English at Duke University–remain one of the most delightful discoveries of my years of exploring in the realm of neglected books. I started out 2013 with her trilogy of memoirs–Charley Smith’s Girl (1965); A Book and a Love Affair (1968); and The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm (1971)–and since then, have added most of her other books to my collection. So I thought a dip into her oeuvre would be a nice start to this year of reading the works of women writers.

Bevington, whose comic verse was often featured in The New Yorker and New York Times Book Review, began writing a memoir in the early 1960s. The book, which became Charley Smith’s Girl, was as much a portrait of her parents, Charley and Lizzie, whose divorce, when Helen was still a very young girl, was considered quite scandalous at the time. Not long before it was published, Bevington’s husband, Merle, also an English professor at Duke, died suddenly of a brain tumor at the age of 64.

To honor Merle’s memory, she wrote A Book and a Love Affair, which recounted their meeting while students at Columbia University in the 1920s and the early years of their marriage. She followed this with T